Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-01
Items Of interest.

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DR.. Morrow has found that the poison
In ice cream is due to the ~cashew-nut
oil in the coGting OF the beans from
which vanilla extracts is made.
The following is stated to be a copy
Of what is written over one Of the large
letter boxes Of The general Post office
III Sackville street, Dublin: "Too Late
Box for Letters, Newspapers, &c, Too
Late for the Next Despatch"
The United States Ministers to Ger
many, France, England and Russia re-
ccive $3.50 each; those to China,
Brazil, Mexico, Japan and Spain re-
ceive $1,000. The general of the army
receives Sl3,J0and the admiral $4,000.
It is said 10y one who knows that all
the bad men and professional killers
OF the west are blondes, with light hair
blue eyes. The traditional des-
pefado, with raven locks and piercing
black eyes, no longer exists.
The latest invention in hat lining ia
a map OF the City Of London printed
on silk, so that any stranger or gay
young fellow may find his way home
or see at a glance if cabhy is taking
him the nearest route TO his destination.
The highest apple orchard in the
United States is at Hot Springs, Lake
Tahoe, Cal. The trees are loaded with
fruit. This is probably the greatest
altitude at which this fruit is grown
In this country, being over $500 feet
above the level OF the sea.
1t appears that the crocodile, like the
faith which formerly esteemed it
sacred, is practically extinct in Egypt.
The steamers plying tine Nile have had
more effect III driving it from that
river than the guns Of sportsmen, &C
cording to Prof. A. Sayce.
The Japanese have not only nearly
three hundred miles of railroad in
operation, hut they make their W cars
ut Shnbask!, and the building of the
line from TsUruga TO Ogaki was con-
Quoted by young Japanese engineers,
whose task included two large bridges
and a tunnel a mile long.
A so-caiied mad dog in Hebron, KY,
bit a COW. The COW in a few DAYS
showed signs of rabies, and about the
same time a baby that mad been living
on the milk of the COW became SINH
larry affected. 1t is said that the symp-
toms Of hydrophobia are pronounced
In the child, whose sufferings are very
great.
A Canada bee-keeper uses chloroform
instead OF tobacco in managing his
bees. He finds 1t a very valuable aid
III removing old queens or in ~introHuc-
ing new ones. These operations are
very p"rplGNinE II a novice, but a few
wfIltfs Of cM!orul0rm blown into the
hive enables them to be performed
without difficulty.
Five hundred years ago one of the
great English lords lad in bis larder
600 bacon isattri pigs. eighty carcasscs
of beef and 90" sheep, for they sailed
mutton III those DAYS rs we'll as beet
and pork. BIT this was at the end of
the winter, so We can imagine what he
had at the beginning. he had be-
sides. alive, 5000 sheep, and enormous
numbers Of oxen, COWS and pigs.
The BARRIERS among the Greeks and
Romans cut and dressed the hair,
shaved the beard. pared the nails and
pulled ont the stray hairs with their
twee2eTs. Wealthy persons kept a
barber in their own honScS amongst
their slaves, but the people ut large had
recourS TO the BARRIERS shop. The
Roman rarely shaved himself. at least
after the year Is. 6. l14, when the first
barber was introduced from Sicily.
Previous to that period the hair and
beard were worn long.
ApOllinaris water comes from a
spring in the Abr Valley in Rhenish
Prussia. The spring first came into
notice about forty years ago. 1t be-
longs to the class of carbonated aka
line waters which are SO beneficial in
correcting any preponderance of acid
in the stomach, and it possesses. more
over, the advantages of an agreeable
flavor and unusual degree of efferves-
cence, which is not transient in its
character.
a citizen Of Valrosia, Fla, wants to
send some of the big red ants of that
region called "bulldog' ants, to sur
geons for use in fastening wounds of
the in~testines. He says that if the
edges of two pieces of soft paper are
held together and a bulldog ant held so
that he will clutch both sides, and his
head be then quickly twisted off, the
ant becomes a fixture in that position.
He says that Spanish surgeons use the
bulldog ant as sutures III that way.
TO make court plaster: Soak bruised
isinglass III a little warm water for
twenty-fOur hours, then evaporate
nearly all the water by gentle heat.
Dissolve the residue in a little proof